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Re:1.7M premature deaths annually from air pollution in India by FooHentai on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:20AM (#25515305)
60% of the indian population works in the agricultural sector.

People = Farmers.

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Re:1.7M premature deaths annually from air pollution in India by vijayr02 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:46AM (#25516333)
I realise this is an area where exact data is probably not available, but this site [0] says 41.49% of the workforce were employed in agriculture.

I've also seen a few pages claiming it's 60%, would like to know which source is more authoritative.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/271320/distribution-of-t...

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